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| Dockyard Railway Portsmouth |
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| Brief Description: Original photograph of construction workers building the dockyard railway, late 19th century. |
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| Subject Date: late 19th century |
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| Creator: Henry Hocking |
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| Owner: Portsmouth City Council Leisure Service (Historical Collections) |
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| Contributor: Portsmouth City Council Leisure Service (Historical Collections) |
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| Full Description: Portsmouth dockyard had a railway as far back as the 16th century when horse drawn trolleys on wooden tracks were used to move heavy mast around the yard. In the 1820's a tramway system was laid down and this was eventually replaced by a railway complex with steam engines and 25 miles of tracks in the 1860's.Trains brought the Royal family to dockyard to embark on their yacht at a specially constructed station at South Railway Jetty. The railway closed in 1977.
This original photograph was taken by local photographer Henry Hocking of 1 Binsteed Road Buckland |
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| Place: Portsmouth, Portsmouth City (UA), Hampshire |
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| Subject: Railway, dockyard, labour, construction |
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| Content Type: Photograph |
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| Location: Portsmouth Central Library |
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| Unique ID: hs-hl-hs3839-i-00-000.jpg |
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